An understanding wife.

[2many projects]

Since 1971 when we bought this house ( we were just 2 displaced 20 year old kids forced out of a dumpy apartment) I've been tinkering out of an unheated 1 car garage under the house we purchased.
As I would buy more old cars, I used friends and neighbors to mooch additional garage and storage space from.
It finally reached critical when my best friend one day said "Instead of buying a couple of more cars and cluttering up MY garage, why don't you build your own garage."
"Doh, why didn't I think of that!"
So with my wife's blessings we ripped out her world class backyard garden, built a new 150' driveway down back and constructed a new 25'x50' garage with a half loft, heat, a/c, a lift, real running water,compressed air lines, nice epoxy floor and all the other stuff to house our junk and build more stuff.
She is a sweetheart!
Without her cooperation and input I'd still be allienating friends, neighbors and relatives around town.
A generous banker and a lot of good friends didn't hurt either.

 

[shocksystems]

Welcome aboard. Your place sounds great.

Cheers!

Jim

 

[IDASHO]

Welcome!

Love the user name, sounds like you will fit right in

 

[Junkman]

If you still have some friends left that have garage space, I am looking for a place to store a few old cars. I will even remove them in the spring. I would love to have a 25' x 50' garage, but it isn't in the cards in my old age. By the time it was built, and I had it to the point that everything was done on the inside, I would be too old to work on anything. What I used to do all night, now takes me all night to do...
PS....... I never heard of the town you live in until I googled it. I used to work in both Shrewsbury and Westboro, and never heard the name once....
"Mount Pisgah is the highest point in Northborough, Massachusetts"

 

[2many projects]

Actually I kinda misled you.
Mount Pisgah is also the highest point in Winchester, a little town in the Middlesex County area about 20 minutes North of Boston.
It's beautiful up here, very peaceful, surrounded by forest and a great view of the Mystic Valley and Fells area.
Also.........hardly any neighbors to bother with my pounding and hot rod noises out in the shop.
Regarding car storage.......A pal in my Hot Rod club has extra winter storage in his shop in Mendon Mass.
His name is Brad at Studley Fabrication.
I can e-mail his number to you later today.

 

[Moose-LandTran]

Sounds cool. Any picture of aforementioned garage and projects?

And welcome to the Journal!

 

[nobrakes]

I think a big part of the car hobby is a significant other that enjoys what you do, even if they don't completly understand it. My wife is awesome, she tells me about cars/trucks that are for sale.

 

[Ironcrow]

So, what happened to her garden? Moved it? Made it bigger? She took up photography instead?

 

[2many projects]

We unearthed the garden out back and little by little we moved them to the 2 side yards and the biggest one she moved out front into a S shapped pattern that stretches along the entire road frontage.
She did the designing and most of the work ( I bustd my knee about that time ).
The yard turned out beautiful!

 

[bchee]

Sounds cool. Any picture of aforementioned garage and projects?

And welcome to the Journal!

yes, any picts??

 

[2many projects]

I got some nice pictures but don't know yet how to download 'em.

 

[2many projects]

Here's one picture.
Having a little difficulty uploading pixs tonight, will try more later on.

 

[2many projects]

Seems I can only upload one picture at a time.
There must be a better way but I can't figure it out.

 

[JohnK007]

Would that be a 71 Malibu SS I spy? That sure brings back some memories!

 

[Vicegrip]

Nice digs and cars!

 

[74vette]

that is so great.got me one of thoes also.didn't even flinch when i droped 10 grand into the engine of my vette this year. of course it helped that i got her a vette for mothers day. wish i had the space to expand my two car garage but alas i'm the center house in a cul-de-sac. luckly there are several members of the corvette club with multi bay garages with lifts who are kind enough to allow others to work small projects, do oil and trans flushes during what we call car care days several times a year.

enjoy your garage. sounds great

just signed on
mike

 

[2many projects]

Would that be a 71 Malibu SS I spy? That sure brings back some memories!

Yes it's a '71.
Back when I bought it I really wanted a '69 as I loved that style and all the drivetrain options you could get.
Alas I could not not afford one.
Some years later I grabbed this '71 454.
Still could barely afford it but glad I took the chance back then.